Lesson Two:
Why Revelation Matters
(Appointments, Annointments and general religious Disappointments)

Go here for lesson one in the difference between Revelation and Prophecy:
http://carmenisacat.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-exactly-is-revelation-in-todays.html

The Revelation: The Last Supper versus The Last Sura called, ironically (or maybe not!) "The Dinner Table":



[5.67] O Apostle! deliver what has been revealed to you from your Lord; and if you do it not, then you have not delivered His message, and Allah will protect you from the people; surely Allah will not guide the unbelieving people. -Sura Al Maida

[5.111] And when I revealed to the disciples, saying, Believe in Me and My apostle, they said: We believe and bear witness that we submit (ourselves).[5.112] When the disciples said: O Isa son of Marium! will your Lord consent to send down to us food from heaven? He said: Be careful of (your duty to) Allah if you are believers.[5.113] They said: We desire that we should eat of it and that our hearts should be at rest, and that we may know that you have indeed spoken the truth to us and that we may be of the witnesses to it.[5.114] Isa the son of Marium said: O Allah, our Lord! send i down to us food from heaven which should be to us an ever-recurring happiness, to the first of us and to the last of us, and a sign from Thee, and grant us means of subsistence, and Thou art the best of the Providers.[5.115] Allah said: Surely I will send it down to you, but whoever shall disbelieve afterwards from among you, surely I will chastise him with a chastisement with which I will not chastise, anyone among the nations.[5.116] And when Allah will say: O Isa son of Marium! did you say to men, Take me and my mother for two gods besides Allah he will say: Glory be to Thee, it did not befit me that I should say what I had no right to (say); if I had said it, Thou wouldst indeed have known it; Thou knowest what is in my mind, and I do not know what is in Thy mind, surely Thou art the great Knower of the unseen things.[5.117] 1 did not say to them aught save what Thou didst enjoin me with: That serve Allah, my Lord and your Lord, and I was a witness of them so long as I was among them, but when Thou didst cause me to die, Thou wert the watcher over them, and Thou art witness of all things. -Sura Al Maida i.e. The Dinner Table

So...the last act of Mohamed, SA was to reveal ? He had already revealed the Quran as we know that the Dinner Table was the last Sura and he was soon to die. Of course, it is the very famous speech at Ghadr Khum that matters in this:

http://www.islamicresearch.org/ghadir_khum.htm

What was the completion of Islam (the last act) and what was the outcome of mythologizing the Last Supper of Isa, SA? Yes, the last act of Mohamed, SA was to appoint a "deputy" who would after his death (Mohamed's) act as Legislator Superior. It was at Ghadr Khum that the directive to follow Ali ibn Abi Taleb (pbuh) was made:

"Then the Messenger of Allah continued: "Do I not have more right overthe believers than what they have over themselves?" People cried andanswered: "Yes, O' Messenger of God." Then Prophet (PBUH) held up thehand of Ali and said: "Whoever I am his leader (Mawla), Ali is hisleader (Mawla). O' God, love those who love him, and be hostile tothose who are hostile to him." "

Obviously...the two things are connected.Was Judas Iscariot nominated to take the place of Isa on the cross? I don't know but it certainly does sound interesting especially when you look into the nature of the "hadiths" known as The Gospels of Judas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Judas

"According to the Gospel, Judas was the only one of Jesus’ followers to fully understand the Gnostic teachings":

"Knowing that Judas was reflecting upon something that was exalted, Jesus said to him: Step away from the others and I shall tell you the mysteries of the Kingdom. It is possible for you to reach it, but you will grieve a great deal. For someone else will replace you, in order that the twelve disciples may again come to completion with their God."

"Like the canonical gospels, the Gospel of Judas portrays the scribes as approaching Judas with the intention of arresting him, and Judas receiving money from them after handing Jesus over to them. But unlike Judas in the canonical gospels, who is portrayed as a villain, and excoriated by Jesus ("Alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born," Mark 14:21; Matthew 26:24, trans. The New English Bible), the Judas gospel portrays Judas as a divinely appointed instrument of a grand and predetermined purpose. "In the last days they will curse your ascent to the holy (generation)."

"Elsewhere in the manuscript, Jesus favours Judas above other disciples by saying, "Step away from the others and I shall tell you the mysteries of the kingdom," and "Look, you have been told everything. Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it. The star that leads the way is your star."In the New Testament, Judas is said to have died by hanging himself (Matthew 27:3-10), or by bursting open after a fall (Acts 1:16-19). The Gospel of Judas does not specify the fate of Judas, although in the gospel, Judas tells Jesus he has had a vision where he is stoned to death by the eleven remaining apostles."

[4.157] And their saying: Surely we have killed the Messiah, Isa son of Marium, the apostle of Allah; and they did not kill him nor did they crucify him, but it appeared to them so (like Isa) and most surely those who differ therein are only in a doubt about it; they have no knowledge respecting it, but only follow a conjecture, and they killed him not for sure. -Sura, The Women

[61.14] O you who believe! be helpers (in the cause) of Allah, as~ Isa son of Marium said to (his) disciples: Who are my helpers in the cause of Allah? The disciples said: We are helpers (in the cause) of Allah. So a party of the children of Israel believed and another party disbelieved; then We aided those who believed against their enemy, and they became uppermost. -Sura, The Ranks

The Tafsir of it all (exegesis):

The similarities are astounding. It is important to know that in the Quran, comparisons are always made between prophets so that a person can understand the relevance of any given revelation of a previously undisclosed fact. Isa is compared to Adam because both prophets were introduced without the use of male sperm i.e. male DNA. Moses is compared to Mohamed because both prophets actually brought a "new" law and both had helpers i.e. "brothers". Moses had Aaron and Mohamed had Ali. Furthermore, this indicates that Isa also had a helper who was named Judas (as far as we know because his name is not given in the Quran and this is only my opinion here). As far as those helpers being blamed for the failure of future generations to comply with the law of Allah, all three men can be compared as having been horribly misunderstood as to their role. Aaron was blamed for the Golden Calf incident (per the Bible but not per the Quran where the incident is justly blamed on a man known only as "Samiri"), Judas is castigated in the Bible and by most generations of people as being a traitor to Allah and the same can be said of Ali when it comes to some fundamentalist Sunni muslims when they accuse the Shia of being "heretical".